May we move forward

It's May? Really?

Honestly that just sounds weird. In an incorrect kind of way. Like it can't be May because that would mean that a full year ago I was finishing my senior year at Delaware and getting ready to graduate. And a full year sounds like a long time. Being May also means that it's spring time for real, and close to summer. May is always the month in school when you start to get that itch for freedom- to get out and have vacation and beach time already. But there's always that pesky end of the semester to get through first.

Now that we're back from Easter holidays/break, we're hitting the ground running with assignments, projects, and exams. Here's a rundown of what the next few weeks hold for me:

1) Entrepreneurial Marketing paper due today
2) Applied Consumer Exam next Tuesday, the 10th
3) Bar Uno project Final Report due the following Wednesday, the 18th
4) Advanced Stats Exam that Friday the 20th
5) Bar Uno project Presentation the following Monday or Tuesday the 23rd/24th

All that is happening within three weeks from today. Plus running participants. Ready Set Go.

After all those deadlines are passed, it's just me, Dan, and our thesis. We have time slots available this week as well as for the end of next week to try to get as many more participants as possible, but sign-ups are slow. Looks like most of the undergrads satisfied their credit requirements earlier on. If it's too slow and we really need participants looks like we'll start recruiting friends and anyone we can to get our numbers up. Once we have enough data we'll have to start running our analyses which is going to be like stats class resurrected but we won't worry about that until the end of the month after all our other due dates and this are over.

That's the first of my last 2 months in Wales all booked up, and so all that brings us to June. I actually have nothing official scheduled for most of the month of June, so that's a big empty month so far. For the most part, anyway. I am hoping to make a small trip here or there maybe to visit Cat in Cambridge or maybe Dublin or Paris if I can swing it. No official plans though. There is, however, a little trip to Italy booked for the very end of the month into July :) So that's my last two months for you.

I will be home for good July 5th - two months from Thursday. Even though I started this post with "omg it's may" blabber, the next two months til I come home seems like forever. July? That's, like, for real summertime. Summer seems so distant. The end of June (when I go to Italy and then straight home) seems really far away. Like, ages. But Eric keeps reminding me that a constant theme of this blog over the past 7 months has been how fast the time is going by. So I can only conclude that when the end of june does finally roll around, I'll be feeling like it flew by and have no idea where the time went just like every other milestone throughout this year. But from where I stand right now, it's miles away. We'll see how it all goes, and I wouldn't blame you if you put money on it that a month from now I'll be saying "omg it's June?" and then "omg it's the end of June?"

I don't doubt it, but from this side of those two months, it seems like a long time.